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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the European Commission regards them as the engine of the European economy. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs. In Europe alone, however, there are approximately 22.5

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Tracey Franklin on Building an Engine of Innovation Through Talent

HR Digest

In this exclusive interview with The HR Digest, Franklin dives into her unique talent management strategies, and how they’re propelling Moderna to the forefront of medical innovation. Her strategic approach goes beyond traditional HR practices. As an example of the Mindsets in practice – one of our Moderna Mindsets is “we behave like owners.”

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. I NNOVATION has always been important. What will that mean to your business?

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Skip Prichard

If you follow any of my own work and writing, you know my passion is studying successful people and learning to incorporate those practices that will help duplicate that success. They do so by practicing at the upper limits of their abilities, combining daring experimentation with a healthy willingness to fail.” -Ron Ron Friedman.

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Stop Right There! 5 Phrases that Crush Collaboration and Tank Teamwork

Let's Grow Leaders

Your words backfiring like a faulty engine, and now a cloud of awkwardness fills the room. 5 Phrases to Avoid if You Want Better Collaboration on Your Team Let’s talk about some of the most common phrases that sabotage collaboration, why they’re so annoying, and what to do instead. So what went wrong?

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What Kind of Innovator Are You?

Leading Blog

I N EVERYTHING WE DO, we bring with it our personal view of the world. When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” The Artist The Artist loves radical innovation.